polywave, xylowave, noise, permawave, onmiwave, noise, vacant lots, and noise.
I'd like to meet:
The most gracious man I ever met was Rowdy Roddy Piper. Piper gave me such a big hug at his book signing in San Francisco in November 2002. It was also at this very same book signing where I first met Pepper Gomez. Pepper held the WWA World Heavyweight Title back in 1975. So I asked him if, during a match, he was ever aware of any one particular sound. Pepper turned to me and said; "It was all just
pure noise kid, just pure noise..."
Music:
Really; I'm just into NOISE... pure noise. I fall apart every time I hear the sound of breaking glass . Oh, and the sound of fire makes me hot !!!
Movies:
Cinema Noise is a (All Region / NTSC) DVD that features ten of my video works (1983-2006) that filter a lexicon of recurring themes through a spectrum of movie motifs and narrative strategies. You'll see skiers stop to build an empty hole in the snow, nomadic bikers debating the polywave, a spy being led from one mysterious note to another, vampires working on their garlic farm, and a visitation that gives a professor the inspiration to invent a gadget that transforms lives. What you'll hear is pure noise, most of which is derived from amplified erosion. Paypal $15 for your copy: gx at jupitter-larsen dot com
Television:
Arrested Development
Alexis Sayle's Stuff (bbc comedy 1990's)
Babylon 5
Black Adder
Danger Man (aka Secret Agent)
Dr. Who (the 2005/6/7 seasons are the best ever!)
Duck Man (why isn't this out on dvd?)
The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin (bbc 1976 - maybe the best sitcom ever)
Family Guy
Futurama
Get A Life (by Chris Elliot)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (bbc 1981)
Hotel Room (by david lynch for hbo)
I Claudius (bbc 1976)
It's The Gary Shandling Show
The Larry Sanders Show (hbo 1992 - 1998)
On The Air (comedy by david lynch 1992)
The Prisoner
Red Dwarf (only the first 3 seasons)
Ren & Stimpy
The Simpsons
Six Feet Under
South Park
Space Ghost Coast to Coast (only the first 2 seasons)
Strip Mall (why isn't this out on dvd?)
Strangers With Candy
The Tick (both the cartoon & the live action variations)
Twin Peaks (only the first season)
Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister (bbc 1980 - 1988)
Books:
Any good thesaurus.
Heroes:
Francisco Lopez & I
Venice Beach, CA
2000Noisy Joe-40,000-Murphy had 40,000 pictures of himself with other people; all kinds of people. His enormous assemblages of images of snapshots, publicity stills, cartoons and other printed matter documented a fabulous world of banquets, braided uniforms, mink-clad actresses, showgirls in evening wear, and professional wrestlers.He was just a regular guy from Bridgeport, but he lived his life as one long special event as he built a private monument to it in his flat in the old Lithuanian section of Chicago.
Me with Achim Wollscheid
San Francisco, CA
2003
In two dimensions it shines, this lifetime of inconsequential encounters with the famous, the strong and the beautiful documented in thousands of photographs, accumulated and annotated obsessively; a combination of professionally shot 8x10s, snapshots and what appear to be newspaper out-takes .Murphy framed the pictures behind glass in prodigious quantity, marking them up with notes, decoration and other jottings. He occasionally cut out individual figures and often drew red, white and/or blue frames around the edges, whether the pictures were to be combined into collages or framed individually.Where the images were out of focus or otherwise unclear, he completed and improved them, adding color to clothing and backgrounds and definition to faces, always trying, it seems, to rescue them from the haze of memory and photographic indistinctness. Faces often were tinted, usually in pink, and lips drawn over. Eyebrows were added when necessary. Walls were decorated with ball-point patterns that trace the wallpaper or represent entirely fictional coverings. Ties and other clothing were outlined as well.
Me with Rowdy Roddy Piper
San Francisco, CA
2002
Me with the greatest heel of all time
Stone Cold Steve Austin,
San Francisco, CA
2004
Pictures were stapled to cover the ceiling, and Murphy lined the walls floor to ceiling with wooden rails set up so that framed pictures could be slid between them. Newspaper photos taken over a period of decades picture him showing off this room.
Murphy's environment was destroyed before it could be properly documented. Evidence of its scale and brilliance survives in hundreds of fragments, though, as well as in a stream of newspaper articles and photos and in the memories of those who saw the actual environment. That evidence points to a unique artistic vision.
Joe Colley & I
Hollywood, CA
2000
...with former WWA title holder Pepper Gomez
San Francisco, CA
2002
